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OUR ARTIST IN CUBA. 





ICARLETON 



OUR 

ARTIST IN CUBA 

FIFTY DRAWINGS ON WOOD. 



LEAVES FROM 

THE SKETCH-BOOK OF A TRAVELER, 
During the Winter of 1864-5, 

BY 

GEO. W. CARLETON. 



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NEW Y O R K : 
Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway. 

London : S. Low, Son &* Co. 
MDCLXV. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by 

GEO. W. CARLETON, 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United 

States for the Southern District of New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



A Preliminary Word. 

No. 

Sick Transit - - i 

Two Boobies - - - - - - - - - 2 

A Colored Hercules - - - - ^ - - 3 

The Cuban Jehu 4 

Iglesia de San Francisco ----- 5 

A Cuban Motive - - - 6 

An Influenza 7 

Flee for Shelter ------- 8 

The Ride - - - - g 

A Cock-fight 10 

Rather Cool - - - - -• - - - 11 

A Spanish Retreat - - 12 

Take your Pick • - 13 

Spiders, Rats, and Cockroaches - - - - 14 

Belligerents - - - 15 

Materfamilias et Filius - - - - - - 16 

A Culinary Department 17 

A Bundle of Clothes 18 

A Button-Smasher - - 19 

White Pantaloons - 20 

A Carnival Acquaintance 21 

Beauty at the Ball 22 

A Disappointment 23 

Dolce far Niente 24 



VI CONTEXTS. 

No. 
Locomotion -------- 25 

The Spanish Tongl'e 26 

An Unwelcome Visitor ------ 27 

An Agreeable Bath - - - - - - - 28 

A Celestial Maid ------- 29 

A Statue on a Bust •50 



A Tail Unfolded 



Put Money in thy Purse - - - - - - 32 

Sugar and Water ------- 33 

Green Fields and Pastures New - - - - 34 

A Segar well-lighted ------ 35 

Where Shall Rest be Found 36 

All Aboard 37 

The Matanzas Cave - 38 

A Hard Road to Travel ----- 39 
A Shady Retreat - - - - - - - 40 

A Spanish Grocer 41 

Colored Help - 42 

Very. Moorish 43 

Chacun a Son Gour - 44 

Nature's Sweet Restorer ----- 45 

Agricultural 46 

A Cot in the Valley - 47 

A Colored Beauty 48 

Corner Stones -.--..- 49 
A Sudden Departure 50 



A PRELIMINARY WORD. 



With many misgivings, the author of this 
little brochure has been persuaded to give 
the prominence of publication to a mere 
pocket-book collection of way-side pen-and- 
ink sketches, the chance results of idle mo- 
ments, sandwiched with such Cuban events 
as paring oranges and sipping from their 
cups of nectar — tearing through the narrow 
streets of Havana in ragged volantes — list- 
ening in the soft moonlight, and arm-in-arm 
with Cuban senoritas, to the Artillery band 
in the Plaza des Armas — assisting with dom- 
ino and false nose at the masquerades in 
the Tacon Theatre — lounging with ices or 
dehcious chocolate at the Cafe Dominica — 
dallying with cigar and fragrant coffee, after 
the regulation breakfast of codfish, garlic, 
and onions — snufiing up the perfumed air, 



Vlll A PRELIMINARY WORD. 

and strolling through the golden orange- 
groves of Cafetals — joining in the battle, 
murder, and sudden death of Marinao cock- 
fights — vagabondizing along the shady side 
of Calle Obispo — and so forth, through all 
the dolce far nientes of a stranger's drift- 
ing life, among the lights and shadows of 
the Antilles' Queen. 

The only merit the pictures possess, 
perhaps, is their faithfulness to nature. 
Though chiefly caricatures, they represent 
such incidents and scenes as every one, 
with both eyes open, sees, who visits Cuba ; 
and being sketched upon the spot, with all 
the crispy freshness of a first impression, 
they possess a sort of photographic value, 
that, in spite of their grotesqueness, may 
prove more lasting than the entertainment 
which their humor offers. 

New York, April, 1865. 



THE START— THE STEAMSHIP COLUxMBlA. 
AT SEA. 




First day out.— The wind freshens up a trifle as we 
j^et outside Sandy Hook ; but our artist says he 
is 'nt sea-sick, for he never felt better in his life. 



tN THE GULF OF MEXICO, 




A " Booby "—as seen/r<7w the ship's deck. 




A Booby — as seen on the ship's deck. 



ARRIVAL AT HAVANA. 




A side elevation of the colored gentleman who cairied 
our luggage froni the small boat to the Custom House. 



VIEW FROM OUR WINDOW AT THE 
HOTEL ALIMY. 




The old Convent and Bell Tower of the Church 
of San Francisco, — now used as a Custom House. 



AT THE CAFE LOUVRE. 




]\Tr.nr.err, rnd Customs of a Cuban wUh 
2. Cold in his Head. 



THE [WICKED] FLEA OF HAVANA. 




Part I. — The beast in a torpid condition. 



Part II. — When he "smells the blood of an 
Englishmun." 

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A COCK-FIGHT IN CUBA. 




I. — Chanticleer as he goes in. 




II. — Chanticleer considerably " played out. 



STREETS OF HAVANA.— CALLE LAMPARILLA. 




The cool and airy style in which tliey dress 
the rising colored generation of Havana. 




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THE CAPTAIN GENERAL'S QUINTA, 




View of the Canal and Cocoa Tree ; looking East 
from the Grotto. 



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STREETS OF HAVANA.— CALLE COMPOSTELLA. 




The Free Negro. — An evcr}'-clay scene, Mlien 
the weather is fine. 



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A>J INTERIOR IN HAVANA. 



Kitclien, chief-cook and bottle-washer in the 
establishment of Mrs. Frankc, out on the 
" Ccrro." 



HEADS OF THE PEOPLE. 




A portrait of the young lady, whose family (after con- 
siderable urging) consents to take in our washing. 





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A MASK BALL AT THE TACON. 




Our artist mixes in the giddy dance, and falls 
desperately in love with this sweet creature but 



Lat£r in the evening, 




When the "sweei creature" unmasks, our Artist 
suddenly recovers from his fit of admiration. Alas I 
beauty is but mask deep. 



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HOTELS IN HAVANA. 




A cheerful Chinese Chambermaid (?) at the 
Fonda de Ingleterra, outside the walls. 



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A gay (but slightly mutilated) old plaster-of- 
Paris girl, that I found in one of the avenues 
of the Bishop's Garden, on the " Cerro." 

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J>aBLIC SERVANTS IN CUBA. 




A gay and festive Chinese brakeman, on the 
railroad near Guines.— The shirt-collar-and-pair- 
of-spurs style . of costume. 



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ARCHITECTURE IN MATAN2AS. 




A romantic little tienda mista (grocery store) on 
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PLANTATIONS NEAR MARIANAS. 




A Colored Beauty toting Sugar Cane from the 
field to the grinding mill. 



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ARCHITECTURE IN HAVANA. 




A conglomerate Esquiria, on the comer of Calle 
Obispo and Monserate. 

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